Jerrells struggles in his New Orleans debut

Former Spurs point guard Curtis Jerrells wasted little time joining his new team, playing with the New Orleans Hornets only a few hours after his trade from San Antonio was announced.

It looked like Jerrells’ jumper still had a touch of jet lag, as he missed two of his three field-goal attempts in his first game with the Hornets. The former Baylor standout was minus-10 in plus/minus, was limited to two points and had a turnover in eight minutes of action in the fourth quarter of the Hornets’ 96-91 loss at Memphis.

New Orleans coach Monty Williams told the New Orleans Times-Picayune that he played Jerrells immediately because he wanted to see how he would react to his new surroundings.

The Hornets’ roster has 16 players after point guard Mustafa Shakur was cut before Jerrells was picked up.

According to the Times-Picayune, if the Jerrells makes the Hornets’ regular-season roster and the Los Angeles Clippers finish among the top four teams in the league at the end of the season, the Hornets will send the Spurs a future second-round pick they obtained from the Clippers last season when they traded guard Bobby Brown.